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Description

The conditional dispatch in clojure.walk is slow and not open to extension. Prior to CLJ-1105 it did not support records.

Approach: Reimplement clojure.walk using protocols. The public API does not change. Users can extend the walk protocol to other types (for example, Java collections) if desired. As in CLJ-1105, this version of clojure.walk supports records.

Risks: This approach carries some risk of breaking user code that relied on type-specific behavior of the old clojure.walk. When running the full Clojure test suite, I discovered (and fixed) some breakages that did not show up in clojure.walk's unit tests. See, for example, commit 730eb75 in clojure.walk2

Patch 0001-CLJ-1239-protocol-dispatch-for-clojure.walk.patch no longer applies cleanly to latest Clojure master since the patch for CLJ-1105 was committed on Nov 22, 2013. From the description, it appears the intent was either that patch or this one, not both, so I am not sure what should happen with this patch, or even this ticket.

Andy Fingerhut
added a comment - 23/Nov/13 1:11 AM Patch 0001-CLJ-1239-protocol-dispatch-for-clojure.walk.patch no longer applies cleanly to latest Clojure master since the patch for CLJ-1105 was committed on Nov 22, 2013. From the description, it appears the intent was either that patch or this one, not both, so I am not sure what should happen with this patch, or even this ticket.